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that's great. although i guess the backup might potentially get really huge after a while. is there a way to retire files that were deleted X number of days ago?
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that's true. but even if the risk of failure is relatively high, the cost of failure is very low, we can just replace the unit and start backing up again (the chances of needing to use the backup on the very same day that the hardware fails are ver…
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yeah that's true. i realized that i had been thinking too hard about the whole problem. really a backup volume doesn't have to be all that fault tolerant (the main disk is already a raid 5, so this backup is just for human error). we already had a 1…
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Quote: Originally posted by Jellytussle nope, RAID 0 or 1 only. How cheap do you need it to be? Well, here's what i was GOING to do: get one of those 8 bay firewire 800 towers (sub $400), fill it with 250 gig drives, tie them together with…
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Okay, I don't mean to kick a dead horse, but I don't think I've seen this particular idea discussed. What about a 90nm g5 1.6? Is it so ridiculous to think that, perhaps with some sort of improved cooling design (but nothing too wild), that could go…
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Quote: Originally posted by SilentEchoes Err yeah I know what load averages are, but I have no idea why I said seconds instead of minutes. \ I guess sleep every now and then would be good. whoops, i meant to reply to majormat's "what are …
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Quote: Originally posted by SilentEchoes Is there a way to find load averages older than 15 seconds? Either way my load average generally fluctuates between 0.30 to 1.40.. the load average is how many processes are waiting in the queue. s…
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Quote: Originally posted by talksense101 You seem to have your panthers and jaguars mixed up in your post. whoops! i've now corrected it. Quote: Panther (10.3) has significant changes in the underlying Unix. Also, the developer tools…
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yes i own the file, and i have read and write permissions. john@g5bachir:/Users$ whoami john john@g5bachir:/Users$ ls -l|grep john drwxr-xr-x 76 john staff 2584 13 Feb 04:27 john/ john@g5bachir:/Users$
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great link, thanks!
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i'm looking at this bad boy: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ayphotohosting any reason i shouldn't go for it? am i going to have to flash the firmware to make it work for mac?
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well, i'm a programmer and a student and a general tech junkie... i host a few websites on my machine, i'm always doing stuff on the side like searching for something or reading something, chat, email.... i actually probably won't get 4 monitors fo…
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I am in fact planning on running 4 CRTs the 7000 is the one i have been looking at, but i thought maybe i could find something cheaper.
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nevermind. silly me i didn't realize that the installer didn't install the drivers but another installer. i ran the installed installer and now everything is working great.
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oh whoops and it looks like it only applies to california residents
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well, it shipped today (and i got upgraded from regular ground to overnite). ordered: 8/16 apple eta: 10/29 or before shipped: 9/25
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well, it shipped today (and i got upgraded from regular ground to overnite). ordered: 8/16 apple eta: 10/29 or before shipped: 9/25
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all hail pismo! when i travel with mine i take out out the battery and the optical drive... empty bays. how many people use their battery for anything but holding system state between locations anyway? sure there is the occasional need to do some wo…
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Quote: Originally posted by Dave Abrey At a given bit rate (lets say 192 Kbps), how does the file size for AAC compare with MP3 for the same song? I'm trying to work out what size HD and iPod I'd need to get my entire CD collection encoded. …
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Quote: Originally posted by Elderloc I order a Dual 2.0 with a 9800, BT, and a 250 HD plus two 23" lcd's. My ship date is 10-22 but then again I order on 9/16. My displays slipped from 9/16 to 9/19 which caused me not to get them until monday I h…